The boy who was trolled
Chapter 28
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"You see Loki, you just have to know how he works."
The four gods watched from their various perches as the plushy familiar finally completed several lifetimes and several chosen one's worth of work by binding the magical beasts back to the ether where they would no longer do the world any harm.
"Ten points" said Aqua.
"I still wish I knew where I'd seen that spider beast before. Just, maddening!" exclaimed Lolth.
"So, do you have the next one picked out?"
Loki grinned a malicious grin, "Oh, I've got one."
"Bet it backfires on him" Aqua whispered to Lolth.
"I'd be disappointed if it didn't" said the spider.
"Where are you sending him then?" queried Venus.
"Somewhere full of vicious powerful monsters."
The others just stared at him blankly, "Really" said Venus.
"You doubt" said the trickster, "but you haven't seen what I'm sending him as. We're going all the way down the food chain."
"This should be good."
"For a laugh."
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A green amorphous blob squelched into existence. Still exhausted from the work of his last existence, Harry just sat there for a time. He was in no rush and this new body was strange in a whole new way.
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"A slime. You made him a slime."
Loki looked inordinately proud of himself despite Venus disbelieving tone.
"Think he'll just eat the whole world?" wondered Aqua.
"That's what I'd do" said Lolth.
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The crystal was glowing like a rainbow of stone. Evan at a distance Harry could feel the magic radiating from it.
He didn't know what it was, and in his new 'body' he had a limited number of ways to interact with it. He decided to do what he had been doing, he glorped on, smothered it, and gobbled it up.
He could tell there was little point in just digesting it, but his new form was a strange thing. With everything he encountered he was learning something new about it.
What would this magic crystal have to teach him?
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"Was this all part of your plan?"
"Just a minor setback" claimed Loki, his smile looking awfully fragile.
"Eat the world" cheered Lolth.
"Pac-man" shouted Aqua.
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The massive insect scurried along on its hundred giant legs. Its gargantuan head with its enormous crushing mandibles turned slightly as it went, grotesquely oversized eyes constantly scouring the tunnels for danger, or food, mostly food.
A creature of its magnitude sat safely at the top of the food chain, or so the unthinking beast believed.
The green slime watching it from the ceiling had other thoughts however. Sliding into position the slime drooped from the ceiling like a giant raindrop, then fell.
Spikes and blades of magical steel sprouted from the amorphous blob who began to spin like the worlds glopiest drill.
The massive centipedal creature bent like cheap plywood when the green drill struck, punching right through its center. The bug had barely realized it had been attacked when the slime wrapped itself around the damaged section and buzz sawed the beast in half.
It noticed this, screaming in pain and fury as half its length was removed it turned and rushed at its attacker and the fight was on.
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Silence, heavy, oppressive. Lolth and Aqua sat trying their hardest not to laugh. They wanted to see how long Loki would stand before the well with his jaw on the floor before he started crying.
Best season yet.
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He watched the battle from a nearby hill, unsure what to think. The small group, of what he assumed were adventurers of some kind, were on the losing end of a fight with a group of goblins and a large troll.
Before being one of such for nearly a century he wouldn't have thought twice about slaying the green skins. Strange how a bit of time can change your perspective on things.
Rape however is not one of those things and his choice was made when one of the female fighters was knocked silly and the goblins dogpiled her and started ripping her clothes off.
His appearance turned the battle quickly and despite being a green ball of goop, that didn't stop the woman from hugging the daylights out of him.
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"I cannot believe you walk around dressed like that."
"Wasn't almost getting raped once enough."
The woman let the ignorant comments slide like water off a ducks back, "Am I detecting a hint of jealousy?"
"I heard it too" said the little green slime draped across her shoulders.
"You shouldn't trust that thing you know, it just wants to grope you" said the male thief.
"I guess that makes two of us" countered the slime, "difference is, I'll actually get to."
And just to prove his point, he reached down and gave her generous bosom a jiggle.
"Harry, stop" she giggled.
"But they're so bouncy."
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"No! No! No! No!"
Aqua cackled as Loki beat his head against the well and Lolth sat chortling in her web.
"This is not happening! This is not happening!"
"You think he really believes that?"
"If he keeps up the headbanging he'll probably believe anything."
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"The portals opening!"
"Oh god, look at the size of that thing."
"Meh, I've seen bigger."
Everyone turned to the slime in disbelief, "What?"
"Are you insane?"
"Maybe."
"Gah!"
"They're so dramatic."
"Well, it is a 'really' big demon Harry" his partner pointed out.
"Guess that means full armor then."
For only the third time since they'd met the green slime fully embraced the warrior woman. Strong magical metal floated to the surface and the most finely crafted sword slid into her hand.
"Ready partner?" he asked.
"Always."
"Then let's kick some demon ass!"
